Met Police asks who is the real Topiary?, Google is shutting down their Labs, Emacs violates the GPL, flying drone snoops your wifi and GSM, CentOS wants to re-implement ksplice and Dan finally reviews Gnome 3 on Fedora 15.
Bryson Kinder and SmokeyMaverick both referred us to an episode of This American Life about patent trolls, there’s also a forum thread if you want to discuss it
Alexander Wilms says the Document Foundation has set up a survey in order to get to know what will be important for their UI redesign
Simon Roberts sent us a link to a BBC news story about a new mobile OS in China
Scott Morton says he thinks tablets are very expensive in Europe; apparently he got an Asus Eee Transformer in Canada
Jose Blanca discussed Linux in bioinformatics with Fab
Aaron Hamid sent us a link to an old Bill Gates email about Windows usability (link removed due to podcatchers being too stupid to parse a feed)
We had other emails from: Ahto Jussila, Reto, Navigium, Darren Walsh, Nigel Bird, Bruce, Robert, Gareins, Martin Danko, Henry Standing, Kostas, Daniel Vredenburg, Tom Sparrow, threexk, Matthew Smith, Kelly, K-Bear, @cheezespread, Tim in Southern California, Steve Smith and Michael Sandahl.
